This season we examine how Western European NATO members like Germany are shifting their defense policies, pursuing ...

The last three months have been a flurry of activity in Latvia as the country entered its pre-election season in June. The 14 ...

As global security dynamics shift, understanding the political trajectories and foreign policy directions of Central Europe ...

Chief of the New Eastern Europe magazine based in Poland. Published since 2011, the magazine is one of the leading ...

German Marshall Fund’s European Resilience program in Berlin. Her research focuses on challenges to liberal democracy in ...

Enabling Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC). He is an expert in Iraq’s political and security affairs and is a policy practitioner of inter ...

Over the last decade, the U.S., UK Israel and other states have begun to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military operations and for targeted killings in places like Pakistan, Yemen and ...

In April, the UK Minister of Defence, John Healey, gave a speech calling out Russian military activities near sensitive underwater cables and pipelines in and around British waters. He said that, in ...

China’s latest Five-Year Plan signals that it has become more pessimistic about the global environment, seeing it as uncertain and unstable. However, the Chinese Communist Party sees opportunity in ...

During the past 20 years of their NATO membership, the Baltic states achieved a multi-faceted transformation in their strategic posture establishment, military capability development, and level of ...

In a 2024 article on Japan’s changing refugee policy in the Asia-Pacific Journal, Maximilien Xavier Rehm, a researcher at Doshisha University, argues that “Japan’s recent shift to grant more asylum ...